Robert Mugabe

Robert Mugabe

(1924–2019) politician Zimbabwe

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Robert Mugabe (1924–2019) was a Zimbabwe politician.

About Robert Mugabe

Robert Gabriel Mugabe was a Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician who led Zimbabwe from 1980 until he was deposed in a coup in 2017. He served as the first Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from internationally recognised independence in 1980 to 1987, then as the second president of Zimbabwe from 1987 to 2017. He was also the Leader of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) from 1975 to 1980 and led its successor political party, the ZANU – Patriotic Front (ZANU–PF) as its First Secretary, from 1980 to 2017. Ideologically an African nationalist, during the 1970s and 1980s he identified as a Marxist–Leninist, and from the 1990s as a socialist.

Notable works:

The inaugural Africa prize for leadership address

Awards:

Order of the Bath|Order of the Yugoslav Star|Confucius Peace Prize|Order of José Martí|Order of Jamaica|Order of Good Hope|Congolese Order of Merit|Order of the Liberator|U Thant Peace Award|Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding|Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath|Order of the Republic of Serbia|Grand Cross of the Order of Good Hope|Gold Olympic Order|Order of Agostinho Neto|Order of Augusto César Sandino|Order of the Grand Conqueror

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